Spout, hood, and mixing chamber for sanitary fixtures



March 27, 1951 s. A. YOUNG 2,546,327

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Patented Mar. 27, 1951 SPOUT, HOOD, AND MIXING CHAMBER FOR SANITARY FIXTURES Stephen A. Young, Delphi, Ind.

Application July 31, 1945, Serial No. 607,942

' This invention relates to a lavatory or sink or like fixture with or without drain control accommodation.

The chief object of this invention is to provide an ornamental hood or shell which is integral with the spout and associate the same with hot and cold water valve controlled supplies, in such a manner that the resulting hood and integral spout is not subject to strain, thereby permitting the use of zinc, brass or white metal castings for such hood and spout. This in turn insures the casting of exceedingly smooth finished products that are readily capable of plating if of metal, and furthermore, since strains are eliminated, the ornamental hood or shell and integral spout may also, when desired, be made of variously colored plastic materials for such uses where color is desired.

Heretofore in the art the ornamental unit including the spout and the two water supply connections, as well as the mixing chamber, required great care in casting, including special coring and the like. This was necessary because the unit itself constituted a portion of the water supply arrangement. Blow holes and like imperfections in the resulting castings were frequent, and production loss, as well as unit time of production, was excessive.

Accordingly, the present invention eliminates the loss due to porosity in foundry work, always prevalent when made from sand castings, and the resulting bottle neck in production.

The present invention is directed to the utilization of a rough element for the water supply and mixing chamber which is subject to strain, but since it is not to behighly finished and is to be concealed by the ornamental hood, does not require the care heretofore required with the structures known in the art. Associated with this rough unit is the combination ornamental hood and integral spout and which can be mounted without strain.

The chief feature of the present invention resides in associating an ornamental hood and combined spout with a rough unit multiple. water supply and mixing chamber, said hood being provided with openings for valve exposure.

A further feature of the invention resides in the non-interfering or offset formation of the multiple water supply and mixing chamber rough unit, and its association with a combination spout and cover hood or shell having the desired ornamentation or outline, the latter supporting a drain control in juxtaposition to the aforesaid rough unit.

1 Claim. (Cl. 4192) Other objects and features of the invention will be set forth more fully hereinafter.

The full nature of the invention will be understood from the accompanying drawings and the following description and claim.

In the drawings Fig. 1 is a longitudinal central sectional View in the central plane common to two parallel water supplies.

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken in the central plane including the spout.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof.

Fig. 4 is a bottom plan view of the spout and rough unit casting.

Fig. 5 is a central sectional view looking away from the spout and of the drain control accommodating embodiment of the invention.

In the drawings, and more particularly Figs. 1 and 2, there is illustrated the top of a lavatory or sink It having a bowl or basin portion II, and the same is provided with suitable apertures I2 of the desired spacing and a central aperture I3. The aperture I3 is provided for drain controlled mechanism accommodation, not shown in Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive.

Extending and herein upwardly through the openings I2 are two externally threaded tubes It to Which the hot and cold water supplies are connected beneath the support portion It. Positioned above this portion is the valve chamber l5 and the two inwardly and angularly directed tubular portions I6 that merge together in the junction I1, see Fig. 4, the portions I6 and I? forming a, mixing chamber.

Extending upwardly from the valve and opposite the tubular portion i4 is the tubular portion I8 having external threads 19 and an internal coarse thread 28. The chamber forming portion it at its junction with the tubular portion I l forms a valve seat 2|, and associated therewith is the valve member 22 adapted to have secured thereto the conventional seal 23. The valve member 22 has a stem 24 that projects upwardly beyond the tubular portion I8 and is enlarged laterally within the same and provided with a coarse thread 25. The free end of this stem 24 may be serrated as at 25 and thereon may be mounted in the usual manner a valve handle.

A cap 21 has threaded connection 2% with the threads I 9, and the internal shoulder to of the cap bears upon the washer 3| engaging the outer upper edge 29 of the tubular portion l8. Packing 32 may be included between the washer and the head of the cap which is apertured at 33 to pass the stem.

When the handle is turned, the seal 23 is removed from seat 2| or brought into engagement therewith, and by this means the Valve regulates cut-oil, full flow or partial flow from the tube I4 to the communicating conduit portion I6. This structure, except for the valve, washer, packing and cap is unitary and a rough unit.

The shell includes a top 49, a front portion 4|, a back portion 42 and the two ends 43. The top is apertured as-at 44, and the tubular portion I8 extends freely through said aperture. If desired, a valve chamber portion I may be shouldered as at 34 to permit the cover or shell to bear thereon, although this is not essential,

Extending upwardly and forwardly from the front 4| and integral with the cover is a spout 45 having a downwardly directed discharge outlet 46 at its forward end and an internally threaded portion 41 at its opposite end. This spout portion has an annular face 48 concentric with axis of the threaded aperture 41; The threaded aperture 411s laterally. enlarged as. at 49-.

The junction I1 of the roughunit has an annular face 56 confrontingface 48 anda tubular.

extension 5|, that extends into the counterbore 49. The junction I1 opposite the tubular, portion BI is apertured as at 52. Interposed between the twoconfronting faces 56 and 48 is the gasket 53. Note gasket 54i applied to the opposite face 56 of the junction I1.

A connector device includes a screw bolt memher having the screw head portion 51- and the.

tubular body portion 58, externally threaded as at'ES'and provided with a plurality of apertures. 68, has an exterior bore 6| that closely fits the,

central bore through the junction I1 as previously. described.- The threaded end 59 of the tubular bolt has threaded engagement as afore said with the base of the spout, and by this means I the spout and the roughunit are rigidly connected together in :leakproof relation- Further.-

more, the apertures 69 in the tubular bolt pro-- vide communication between the spout. and the interior. of the junction I1;

It will be obvious, therefore, that by properly locating theposition of,.let us say, shoulder 34 with respect to the surface of the baseor support Ill, that no strain whatsoever will be placed upon the combination cover and spout fixture, and yet the cover at. its lower. edge can just bear upon said support Ii). This cover conceals the rough.

unit and masks the openings in the support,

Obviously the opening I3 in the support is of such character that accesscan be had to the tubular bolt 51 to effect the desired connection between the spout with its attached cover and the rough unit previously described.

Reference will now be had to Fig. 5 wherein a modified form of the invention is illustrated.

In this form of the invention numerals of .the one hundred series designate parts identical or similar to parts designated by the primary numeral series and illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4.

In this form of the invention the drain controlled structure is associated with the junction portion, and this drain controlled structure is associated with a detachable spout. The junction II1 includes an upwardly directed tubular portion I66 which is internally threaded as at I6I and enlarged laterally to form a shoulder I62 to take a gasket I63, and this counterbore is internally threaded as at I64 to take the threaded portion of a gland nut I65 bearing on a washer- I66. The gland nut and gasket envelopes the stem I61 of the base of a spout having a large chamber forming portion I68 with which the spout I45 communicates. A gasket I69 and a gland nut I16 have threaded engagement as at I1i with said portion I68 at I12.

A stem I13 mounting an exposed knob I14 is reciprocable or rotatable as desired for drain control purposes. The stem I13 is of lesser crosssectional area than thetubularity of the portion I61, the latter having threaded engagement as at Ifia with the threaded portion NH.

The top I40 of the cover is apertured as at I15 anda masking and ornamental collar I16 envelopes the projecting tubular portion I60 of the rough unit and masks the opening in the cover as shown, said collar being retained by its flange I11 being interposed between the gland nut I and the end'of the portion I68. The junction I I1 opposite the tubular extension I66 includes an inwardly directed portion I88 apertured at I8I to pass therod I13. This inwardly directed portion is threadedas at I82 and a gland nut I83 bears upon gasket material I84 between the nut and'the portion I88, the gland nut and packing material being apertured for rod accommodation, and when the nut is tightened, a leakprooi' connection is effected.

The third modified form of the invention obviously is one whereinthe cover 40 in Figs. 1. to 4 inclusive is centrally apertured-as shown by the dotted lines 268 in Fig. 1, and inasmuch as,

the conduit portions, see Fig. 4, are divergingly directed, the rod following spout and cover connection to the rough unit may be slidably and/ or rotatablysupported'in-the openingZllil, the rod atits lower end being suitably connected to adrain which may, if desired, beof pop-up character.

It will be clearly understood that all supply pipe strains are incorporated in the rough unit and are not transmitted. to the combination cover and spout, so that the latter can be a brass forging (brass if desired), a die casting (brass, zinc or die metal) or of plastic or other: suitable material having a low tensile strength, and to which a smooth finish can be imparted in the casting operation, so that such acover, if die cast metal, can be subsequently plated, etc. without any great cost or labor.

This invention as initially stated herein eliminates the smoothing operations required in the prior art structures, eliminates the wastage incident to blow holes and the like, and furthermore, the speed ratio of production has been ascertained to be approximately 20 to 1, that is, 20 covers and integral spouts, while 1 of the prior art units is being fabricated to. a finished condition.

While the invention has been illustrated and described in great detailin the drawings and foregoing description, the same is to be considered as illustrative and not restrictive in character.

The several modifications describedherein as well as others which will readily suggest themselves to persons skilled in this art, all are considered to be within the broad scope of the invention, reference being had to the appended claim.

The invention claimed is:

In a valve structure for mounting in exposed relation relative to an apertured support, the combination of a one-piece rough unit having spaced parallel connecting portions-for connection to separate supply pipes, each connecting portion including a chamber for valve accommodation, two conduits directed from the chambers and towards each other, and terminating at a junction, a chambered cover having valve accommodating apertures, a spout portion and spout for the unit and cover respectively and having adjacent ends registering, and means connecting the cover to the unit at the junction,

the cover nesting and concealing the support exposed unit, the spout being detachably associated with the junction and the cover and support being apertured midway between their respective valve accommodating apertures, and a drain valve control rod movably mounted in the midway apertures for drain control purposes and extending through the junction and spout and the connection therebetween.

STEPHEN A. YOUNG.

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